This Org Chart Explains Why Microsoft's CEO-In-Waiting Is Suddenly Out

Dieter Bohn at The Verge has Microsoft sources who tell him the reason Windows boss and former CEO-in-Waiting Steve Sinofsky is suddenly out of the company is that he was "an aggressive, tightly-siloed Windows boss" and not "a holistic Microsoft boss."

Microsoft has a reputation for being a place where products are "siloed" off into "fiefdoms" run by bosses that compete with each other for resources and reputation.

Designer Manu Cornet created a famous cartoon depicting this org stucture, and we've pasted it below.

Lately, there has been an effort at Microsoft to change this structure, and make the company more cohesive.